Culinary Training That Changes Lives

Across Ontario, newcomers, single parents, evacuees, and low-income families want to build stable careers in food but lack the certification, childcare, and transportation to get started.

Pathways to Rizq: Culinary Arts & Food Handling Program offers a 6-class journey with food-handling certification, hands-on culinary training, and faith-based business mentorship so participants can move from surviving to earning halal income.

Launched in 2025, three cohorts of this program have been run with a total of 31 participants. That’s 31 households transformed entirely.

Your gift can turn one classroom seat into a new source of rizq for another household.

For hundreds of families, this certificate can opens doors to restaurants, catering, and safe home-based food businesses. You can help someone turn their cooking skills into a way to provide for their family, putting meals on the table and hope in their home for generations to come.

● 19% wage gap: Mothers in one-parent families earn 19% less per hour than mothers in two-parent households.(Statistics Canada)

● 40% single parents struggling: Nearly 40% of single-parent households struggle to cover basic needs, with many parents skipping meals so their children can eat.(Salvation Army)

● Under-employment: Newcomer and low-income women are often concentrated in low-wage or informal work because they lack access to training, language support, and childcare.(Canadian Women’s Foundation)